Väinämöinen in the Beginning

Digital painting based on the first rune of the Kalevala:"Thus our hero reached the water,Rested five years in the ocean,Six long years, and even seven years,Till the autumn of the eighth year,When at last he leaves the waters,Stops upon a promontory,On a coast bereft of verdure;On his knees he leaves the ocean,On the land he plants his right foot,On the solid ground his left foot,Quickly turns his hands about him,Stands erect to see the sunshine,Stands to see the golden moonlight,That he may behold the Great Bear,That he may the stars consider.Thus our hero, Wainamoinen,Thus the wonderful enchanterWas delivered from his mother,Ilmatar, the Ether's daughter."